In 1977, Muscle Shoals Sound Studio cofounder and Swampers guitarist Jimmy Johnson offered a local band called Jackson Highway a song called “Old Time Rock and Roll.” The band, named after Muscle ...

None of the session musicians knew the song, and they couldn’t find a copy anywhere locally. They needed to hear it, though. Because Rod Stewart wanted to record a cover of “The First Cut is the ...

On the wall of Michael Gray’s office at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, there’s a framed Hatch Show Print poster for a 2011 panel discussion at the museum titled Land of 1000 Dances: The ...